- Jul 20, 2016
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Our neighborhood has an email group, which mostly is used to ask for recommendations, list items for sale, and to warn about undesirable activities. I know most of the people just through email. Today this email appeared, and I've never seen one like it. You could have knocked me over with a feather. This thread went out to several hundred homes. There most definitely are changes afoot.
Her: I happened to see this video ..... I just want to share it and send my thanks to those who served in the Vietnam War, both Americans and Vietnamese.
And to the Vietnamese people who had to flee their homeland and have established a new life in our country, I want you to know how much I admire you. I have known quite a few of you, and all my acquaintances have been courageous, hard-working contributors to our society. You have gotten an education and assimilated into your new culture while honoring the culture from which you came. You have learned English, built families and businesses, and made our lives more rich by being here. You left everything you knew and everything you had to come to a very different place on the other side of the world. I sometimes ask myself whether I could have done that with as much as grace.
Me: Thank you for your gracious and heartfelt expression of love, friendship, and admiration. I think many of us have moments when we think this to ourselves, but not all of us express it openly. Hooray for you! Maybe we can have our own “good news” corner.
Her: I think a “good news corner” would be a great idea. Most of us do have these moments when something lovely strikes us. If we had a way to express it and share it with others, maybe we’d all feel a little better. It could be as simple as a kind gesture we witnessed.
Her: I happened to see this video ..... I just want to share it and send my thanks to those who served in the Vietnam War, both Americans and Vietnamese.
And to the Vietnamese people who had to flee their homeland and have established a new life in our country, I want you to know how much I admire you. I have known quite a few of you, and all my acquaintances have been courageous, hard-working contributors to our society. You have gotten an education and assimilated into your new culture while honoring the culture from which you came. You have learned English, built families and businesses, and made our lives more rich by being here. You left everything you knew and everything you had to come to a very different place on the other side of the world. I sometimes ask myself whether I could have done that with as much as grace.
Me: Thank you for your gracious and heartfelt expression of love, friendship, and admiration. I think many of us have moments when we think this to ourselves, but not all of us express it openly. Hooray for you! Maybe we can have our own “good news” corner.
Her: I think a “good news corner” would be a great idea. Most of us do have these moments when something lovely strikes us. If we had a way to express it and share it with others, maybe we’d all feel a little better. It could be as simple as a kind gesture we witnessed.